Trim flaky tests in the auth suite
Needs inputCodex pruned the redundant retry wrappers and tightened three brittle assertions in test_auth.py. No app code changed — the suite is leaner and the remaining cases are deterministic.
One test — test_login_race — is genuinely flaky upstream. Quarantine it and open a follow-up so the suite goes green now. Last 5 like this cleared in under 2 minutes.